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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
-English Proverb
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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
-Warren Bennis
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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.
-Bible
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way. Proverbs 3:5, 6
-Bible
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
-Joyce Brothers
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Build a little fence of trust around today;
Fill the space with loving deeds,
And therein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon tomorrow;
God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.
-Mary F. Butts
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
-Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour
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I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
-William Pitt The Elder Chatham
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Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
-John Churton Collins
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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
-Eliza Cook
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Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
-William Cowper
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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
-Archibald Cox
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
-Frank Crane
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Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
-Oliver Cromwell
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
-John Dryden
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-Finley Peter Dunne
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No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.
-Elsa Einstein
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
-Harvey Fierstein
step #6 of A 12-Step Program Guaranteed to Change Your Life
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Books about Trust
